Show I The County Agents Report j Duchesne County Farms News jj J by Lloyd Smith and Norris DAIRYING Our good such as J. Bishop of have for a long time that cows do better when they milled and fed According to Lloyd county Extension experiments prove they right I being milked twice a at Cornell University did test when they were milked at regular The averaged about milk an On a this rate dropped to end on tit dropped further to of muk an Thus the research indicates dairymen might expect a 15 percent reduction if they miss one such as Buring a power failure or a If resort to only once a day for periods of time milk might well drop 40 percent or Research done at the University of Missouri lias shown the value of frequent regular Dairy cows on test produced up to 14 percent more milk when fed regularly four to 7 times a day than when fed only twice a Besides producing more milk the cows fed more frequently produced more Cows fed four times a day produced pounds of milk per pound of feed as compared to pounds for those fed twice a About 4 percent more of the feed consumed was digested by cows fed more IRRIGATION Don't shut off your irrigation water when it starts to cautions Lloyd Smith and Norris county Extension agents with Utah You can't count on enough rain to do the It takes one to two inches of moisture to wet each foot of dry Usually it is necessary to put on three to four inches of moisture in an irrigation to replace the water removed by the A half-inch rain storm can wet the soil only about six to twelve inches whereas a good irrigation will wet down two to I three The next time it determine how much water you need on the You will usually need at least three to four Considering your needs and the amount of rain which Smith and you will recognize that in most cases it pays to ignore the rain and go right on |